“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I heard the above phrase recently and it has opened up a whole new aspect of research for me. This is something that just about every single person in the history of ever has experienced. From the benign to the pure evil. It might start with comment made to you as a child by your […]
Years ago I employed a local graphic designer to rework our company brochure. She taught me a lot via the new company logo. She said : Men always go for pointed/pointy symbols & women always go for roundy symbols. What goes to the Moon? Why? Look at the above words and THINK! We have lived […]
Book One The prologue establishes an audience and a speaker, who defines himself by location, education, occupation, and his kinship with the philosophers Plutarch and Sextus of Chaeronea. The narrator journeys to Thessaly on business. On the way, he runs into Aristomenes and an unnamed traveler. The unnamed traveler refuses to believe Aristomenes’ story. The narrator insults the […]
David IV of Georgia, known as David the Builder, was the grandfather of Tamar of Georgia. David was called The King of Kings, Tamar The Queen of Queens. One of David’s daughters married Isaac Comnenus. They had three children. John. Andronicus and Anna. David was Andronicus I Comenus’s grandfather and also the great-grandfather of his […]
Can someone explain this to me? I grew up on Greek Myth & Legend. I’ve spent decades researching Jehanne d’Arc. I know too much about Burgundy. And sirens. And …etc. So. Tell me about these and how they connect (?) And then TELL ME about the history of Jehanne d’Arc and where she fits into […]
I know, coming from a multi-generational military family, that STANDARDS are flags. I even know a little bit about the history of STANDARDS. They are called several names : Colours, Flags, Oriflammes, Pennants etc To Raise The Standard used to mean To Fly YOUR Flag. As High As Possible so that everyone could see it. […]
I’ve done Macbeth here so many times in so many ways. GB 29th of May 2019 : “Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff I went back to Barbara Erskine a couple of days ago and took down Kingdom of Shadows. BTW : I met Barbara in Lincoln and used to have contact with her via […]
This is an incredibly fascinating book to me. I bought it way back in 2001 as a research aid into the lives of Buckingham (fave of James I Stuart & Charles I Stuart) and Olivares (fave of Felipe IV of Spain) and Richelieu (eventually fave of Louis XIII) Observers in England, Spain, France and many […]
I’m certain that VERY FEW people understand. I wrote this in April 2019 THE BLOODIED RIGHT HAND COMNENUS, DID YOU KNOW?, THE HIDDEN HISTORY PROJECT The Bloodied Right Hand Friday, 26 April 2019, 11:19 The symbol of The Right Hand/The Bloodied Hand/The Red Hand has a long history. But why? Whose hand? I’ve lived in Ulster…twice…and often […]
Thanks to an amazing friend, I learned quite a bit about Alasdair and the Lord of the Isles. She is much more Scandinavian than me. “They” say that Mac Colla was 6ft 7inches…though slightly shorter when “they” beheaded (?) him in Ireland. Mac Colla’s father Coll Ciotach, who was again taken prisoner at Dunyvaig, was […]